vgacon: use slab allocator instead of the bootmem allocator
authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:37 +0000 (19:25 +0300)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:33:34 +0000 (19:33 +0300)
Slab is initialized before the console subsystem so use the slab allocator in
vgacon_scrollback_startup().

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
drivers/video/console/vgacon.c

index 38e86b84dce04e610eb2fafc7fbc1b8fa527029e..59d7d5ec17a4e0319288013297f184bc574ba6d0 100644 (file)
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static inline void vga_set_mem_top(struct vc_data *c)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
-#include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 /* software scrollback */
 static void *vgacon_scrollback;
 static int vgacon_scrollback_tail;
@@ -210,8 +210,7 @@ static void vgacon_scrollback_init(int pitch)
  */
 static void __init_refok vgacon_scrollback_startup(void)
 {
-       vgacon_scrollback = alloc_bootmem(CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
-                                         * 1024);
+       vgacon_scrollback = kcalloc(CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE, 1024, GFP_NOWAIT);
        vgacon_scrollback_init(vga_video_num_columns * 2);
 }